Artifacts and Ideas - Essays in Archaeology

Informationen zum Autor Bruce Trigger Zusammenfassung Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Understanding the Material Remains of the Past; 2: Engels on the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man: An Anticipation of Contemporary Archaeological Theory; 3: Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian; 4: Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist; 5: Archaeology at the Crossroads: What’s New?; 6: Hyperrelativism, Responsibility, and the Social Sciences; 7: Archaeology and Epistemology: Dialoguing across the Darwinian Chasm; 8: The Real, the Perceived, and the Imagined; 9: Imagination and Scientific Curiosity; 10: The 1990s: North American Archaeology with a Human Face?

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• Authors: Bruce G. Trigger
• Assisted by: Bruce Trigger (Editor), Bruce G. Trigger (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2002
• EAN: 9780765801654
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0165-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Archaeological Theory